The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide Category: Paradise, Utopia
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius Category: Paradise, Utopia
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh Category: Paradise, Utopia
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered. – Thomas de Quincey Category: War
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. – John Fowles Category: Nature
Change your life today. Dont gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone de Beauvoir Category: Change
A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life. – Suze Orman Category: finance